Saturday, July 30, 2016

Solar System Missions Update 08/2016

We'll see plenty of action in the second half of this year: Juno at Jupiter will see its first perijove in August, and begin the science mission in November. Meanwhile, in September OSIRIS REx will launch and Rosetta will end its mission with a comet touchdown, and in October ExoMars will reach Mars and Schiaparelli will land on it. Finally, Cassini will begin its orbits through Saturn's ring plane in November as the beginning of its grand finale.